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CHUMASH

Parshas Eikev - Shvi'i with Rashi

Moshe is still talking to the Yidden, begging them to listen to Hashem so they can have all the brachos!

“If you keep all the mitzvos, and stay close to Hashem (by learning from the Chachomim and Tzadikim), Hashem will send away all of the Goyim from Eretz Yisroel! The WHOLE land will belong to the Yidden!

“Nobody will try to make problems for the Yidden, because Hashem will make them scared of you!”

 
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TEHILLIM

88 - 89

Today’s shiur Tehillim is kapitelach Pey-Ches and Pey-Tes.

In Kapitel Pey-Tes, there’s a posuk, “Ki Amarti Olam Chesed Yibaneh” — Hashem said, “I will build a world of chesed.”

Chassidus explains that Hashem created the world with the midah of Chesed. Why did Hashem choose this midah?

To use the midah of Chesed, there needs to be someone else to give to or help. We see this with Avraham Avinu, whose strongest midah was the midah of Chesed. When there were no guests, it bothered him very much! Without someone to GIVE to, you can’t use Chesed.

This is one of the reasons Hashem created the world — so that He could show His Chesed! In order to use Hashem’s midah of Chesed, there needed to be a world to do Chesed for!

Hashem also gave each of us the Midah of Chesed! We use our Chesed when we have Ahavas Yisroel to help another Yid.

 
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TANYA

Igeres Hakodesh Siman Hey

Since Hashem is so hidden in the world we need to do something special so that Hashem will give it chayus. When we give chayus to another Yid by giving tzedaka, Hashem gives chayus to the world!

Now we understand what it means, that someone who gives tzedakah “makes” Hashem’s name (“Vayaas Dovid Sheim”). Because when we give Tzedakah, it makes Hashem give chayus to Olam Hazeh which is made with the Hey of Hashem’s name, and not only to Olam Haba which is made with the letter Yud! So by giving Tzedakah, the letter Yud and ALSO the letter Hey give chayus — and only with the letter Hey is Hashem’s name complete!

This is another letter where the Alter Rebbe gets Chassidim excited to give more tzedakah, by explaining the special things that happen when we do this mitzvah.

 
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HAYOM YOM

Yud-Ches Menachem Av

Here’s something that the Mitteler Rebbe heard from the Alter Rebbe about Ahavas Yisroel:

A Yid has to be so full of Ahavas Yisroel for another Yid, that no matter how hard it is to love him (like even if he is very annoying or hurt us), we will still love him and treat him with Ahavas Yisroel no matter what.

Here is a story that shows us that we need to have Ahavas Yisroel even when it is very hard:

A chossid once came to the Rebbe Rashab in yechidus. He told the Rebbe that he was at the doctor, and the doctor told him he has to take a very yucky medicine! He asked for a bracha that it should get easier.

The Chossid was very surprised at the answer he got: The Rebbe told him that he doesn’t even have a little bit of how much Ahavas Yisroel he really needs to have!

The Rebbe Rashab explained: “Do you think that Ahavas Yisroel is just dancing with another Jew on Simchas Torah? Ahavas Yisroel can be very hard! Sometimes it can even hurt!”

The Chossid understood that if he was careful with his Ahavas Yisroel, and was even ready to do things that were uncomfortable or hurt, in order to help another Yid, then the medicine wouldn’t bother him so much!

Heard from the Chossid R’ Moshe Rubin A”H

 
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SEFER HAMITZVOS

Shiur #30 - Mitzvas Asei #14

Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Asei #14) is to wear tzitzis! We need to attach special tzitzis strings to the corners of clothes that have four corners. One of those strings is supposed to be blue, called techeiles! But even if we don’t have the blue string, we still do the mitzvah with just white strings.

We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shelach: וְעָשׂוּ לָהֶם צִיצִת וְגוֹ׳ וְנָתְנוּ עַל צִיצִת הַכָּנָף פְּתִיל תְּכֵלֶת

The details are explained in Mesechta Menachos perek Daled.

 
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RAMBAM

Hilchos Tzitzis

We learn the WHOLE Hilchos Tzitzis today. The Rambam explains all of the halachos in just three perakim!

In Perek Alef, we start to learn about tzitzis! Really, the tzitzis are supposed to have seven white strings, and one techeiles string. But since we don’t have techeiles, we can still do the mitzvah with just white strings.

Perek Beis: Even though there are other ways to make a color that LOOKS like techeiles, only real techeiles will stay the same color no matter what. So to check if a string was dyed with real techeiles, we soak it a strong liquid to see if the color fades! Only real techeiles is kosher for tzitzis.

Perek Gimmel: According to the Torah, only clothes made of wool or linen need tzitzis, but the Chachomim told us to put tzitzis on clothes made of ANY material with four corners.

Did you know that a kapote can have four corners? If you look at your Tatty’s kapote, you will see that one of the corners is rounded, so it doesn’t count as a corner. If it wasn’t round, you would need to put tzitzis on your kapote too!

 
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RAMBAM PEREK ECHOD

Hilchos Talmud Torah - Perek Alef

We start learning the halachos of learning Torah today! One of the halachos we learn is that a father has a mitzvah to make sure his kids learn Torah! (The Alter Rebbe says in the Shulchan Aruch that this is not just for boys, but a father also needs to make sure his girls learn too. And even though the mitzvah is given to the father, both parents work together to make sure that the children get the best chinuch there could be!)

 
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INYANA D'YOMA

Yidden and the Moon - Part 2

This Shabbos finishes the week where we celebrate the Yom Tov of Chamisha-Asar B’Av.

We learned that the lesson the Chachomim tell us to take from this day is to add in learning Torah. But, as we asked before, how does this fit with the full moon after Tisha B’Av? The MOON only gets smaller afterwards, but WE are supposed to keep adding in our Torah learning as the nights get longer and longer!

We will understand the answer by looking at how the moon really works:

When we look at the moon at different days of the month, it can look to us that it is bigger or smaller. Sometimes it is only a thin line, but in the middle of the month, it is full and round!

Still, the moon doesn’t ACTUALLY get smaller after the middle of the month! The moon LOOKS smaller because we can only see the part of it shining on the world.

Really, the moon is always the same size, and is always shining the same amount! If we flew up to space, we could go around to the other side of the moon and see how it is full and shining!

A Yid, like the moon, also has a part of himself that is shining where other people can’t see. That is the part of us that connects to Hashem through davening and learning. When we do mitzvos and help and teach others, that is like the way we can see the moon, shining in the world. But our personal davening and learning and connecting to Hashem is the other kind of shining, that can’t be seen by other people in the world.

This is the lesson of Chamisha-Asar B’Av:

We need to be like the moon in BOTH ways! There are times when we need to make sure we are shining in the world, through helping other Yidden and making a Kiddush Hashem in the world, and there are times when we need to work on shining in ways that other people can’t see.

Starting from Chamisha-Asar B’Av, we make sure that we are adding in our learning Torah, together with davening so we will feel a bittul and strong connection to Hashem. This personal connection becomes more each day, just like the moon in the second half of the month, which shines more and more on the side that we can’t see!

This continues throughout the month, getting us ready for the new Avodah of the month of Elul which is coming very soon!

See farbrengen Parshas Va’eschanan Tof-Shin-Mem-Hey

 

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TEFILLAH

Pesukim After Ketores

After the parts of davening that speak about how the ketores is made, we say three pesukim which Dovid Hamelech put into Tehillim:

The posukHashem Tzeva’os Imanu” was said by Avraham Avinu. It means that Hashem is always with us and gives us koach.

The posukHashem Tzeva’os Ashrei Adam” was said by Yitzchak Avinu. It says that a person who trusts in Hashem is very fortunate!

The posukHashem Hoshia” was said by Yaakov Avinu. In this posuk, we ask Hashem to save us!

According to Kabbalah, saying these pesukim three times after saying the ketores has a very strong koach!

 
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HALACHOS HATZRICHOS

Seforim

Seforim have Hashem’s holy Torah inside. We need to treat seforim with kavod.

One halacha is that if we see a sefer upside down, we shouldn’t leave it. We should turn it the right way!

See Kitzur Shulchan Aruch siman Chof-Ches se’if vov

לעילוי נשמת הרה״ח ר׳ דניאל יצחק ע״ה בן ר׳ אפרים שי׳ מאסקאוויץ
שליח כ"ק אדמו"ר נשיא דורנו למדינת אילינוי

 
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GEULAH U'MOSHIACH

Hashem Always Loves the Yidden

The Navi Hoshea lived at the time of the first Beis Hamikdash.

The Yidden in the times of Hoshea were not following Hashem. They were serving Avodah Zarah and not listening to Hashem. In the first perek of Hoshea, the Navi gives the Yidden tochacha for not staying strong in serving Hashem.

In the second perek, we see that Hashem always loves the Yidden, no matter what. We will see this love revealed in the times of the Geulah!

וְהָיָה מִסְפַּר בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל כְּחוֹל הַיָּם אֲשֶׁר לֹא יִמַּד וְלֹא יִסָּפֵר וְהָיָה בִּמְקוֹם אֲשֶׁר יֵאָמֵר לָהֶם לֹא עַמִּי אַתֶּם יֵאָמֵר לָהֶם בְּנֵי קֵ-ל חָי

Vehaya Mispar Bnei Yisrael — The amount of Yidden will be

Kechol Hayam — Like the sand by the sea

Asher Lo Yimad Velo Yisafer — Which can’t be measured or counted!

Vehaya Bimkom Asher Yei’amar Lahem Lo Ami Atem — And instead of the Yidden being called “Not My nation,”

Yei’amar Lahem Bnei Keil Chai — They will be called “Children of the living Hashem!”

In a short maamar of the Alter Rebbe, this posuk is explained:

The word the posuk uses to say “instead of” is “Bimkom,” which can also mean “in the place.” The Alter Rebbe explains that in the same place where the Yidden were called “Not My nation,” because of the aveiros they did, they will be called “Bnei Keil Chai,” children of Hashem.

Where is that place? Right here in the Gashmius’dike world!

This posuk is saying that when Moshiach comes, the Yidden will do a complete teshuvah. Then, there will be nothing stopping kedusha from shining right here in Olam Hazeh like it shines in Ruchnius’dike worlds!

Because of this teshuvah, we will be able to see Hashem in this Gashmius’dike world the way Hashem can nowadays only be seen in Olam Ha’Atzilus!

See Hoshea perek Beis, posuk alef; Maamarei Admor Hazakein Haketzarim – Hosafos, Maamar Peleg Elokim

 
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